Re: [gentoo-user] how to support a package going out of tree

[Raffaele Belardi]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:13:32 +0100, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
>
>> One of my son's favourite games (hedgewars) is going out of tree due to
>> dependency on deprecated QT4.
>>
>> I already have a local overlay with a modified hedgewars ebuild which
>> adds support for a non-standard USE flag but I suppose this will not be
>> sufficient to continue using/building the game. Once the dependencies
>> will go out of tree also there will be little chance to rebuild the
>> game if necessary, right?.
>
> Right, so copy the dependencies to your overlay too. Portage will warn
> you when they are slated for removal.

Which I suppose means the packages listed under RDEPEND and DEPEND in the ebuild. Ok,
should be manageable.

thanks,

raffaele